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14 - In the Days and Weeks that Followed

from Part IV - From December Onwards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2024

William A. Everett
William A. Everett
Affiliation:
University of Missouri, Kansas City
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On 2 December, Sigmund Romberg and Dorothy Donnelly’s The Student Prince in Heidelberg (or The Student Prince), a romance-filled operetta that does not have a happy ending, opened on Broadway, later becoming the longest-running musical of any sort to open on Broadway in the 1920s. Set in nineteenth-century Heidelberg, its tale of a prince who must leave behind his young love, a waitress at the inn he frequents, is set to an expansive musical score that features waltzes, marches, a buoyant drinking song and more. Other musicals that followed later in the month included Betty Lee, set in Southern California with a plot concerning a footrace in which a phonograph is the prize. Revues also appeared as the year drew to a close, further emphasizing the ubiquity of the genre.

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nostalgiaIlse MarvengaHoward Marshoperettas set in GermanyLouis A. Hirschsound recordings as plot devices
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The Year that Made the Musical
1924 and the Glamour of Musical Theatre
 , pp. 203 - 214
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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